Fact · Languages and accents
25+languages
WriteFast says Whisper supports 25 or more languages on the user's Mac, with automatic language detection.
Checked against its source on October 26, 2026
In the source's own words
“Whisper supports 25+ languages on-device, with automatic detection”
WriteFast: On-device dictation for macOS (site script), WriteFast, 2026, Languages section of the home page (site script).
Open the original- What it measures
- WriteFast runs OpenAI's Whisper speech model entirely on the user's Mac. The Languages section of its home page gives the count with a plus sign and no exact number.
- What it does not show
- The page says 25+, so the count is a floor, not an exact number, and it does not list the languages. Recorded as 25 in the dataset, with the plus sign kept in the value and in the note.
In the data
A row of How Many Languages Speech Recognition Supports, as WriteFast, Whisper: 25 languages.
- System
- WriteFast (Whisper)
- Maker
- WriteFast
- Kind
- Dictation app
- What is counted
- Languages
- On device
- Yes
- As of
- 2026-10
- Note
- The page says 25+. 25 is the stated minimum, not an exact count.
Source
Used to calculate
- In the languages supported by speech recognition systems dataset, the 224 published figures for “Dictation app” have a median of 50 languages, ranging from 1 to 1,600.
- The languages supported by speech recognition systems dataset holds 383 data points, each a published figure traced to its source.
- The languages supported by speech recognition systems dataset draws on 322 distinct sources.